Ch 12 I think we got it!
I was early to meet Tom but he was there when I entered the room we meet in the first time. He was poring over his parchment a frown on his handsome features. I watched him for a while and he finally looked up, probably feeling my gaze on him.
" Hey! I think I got it!" he said a grin covering his face.
"Got what?" I asked walking toward him. He indicated the parchment. It was covered with ingredients. I looked it over three times before I cracked a grin.
"Well Well Mr. Riddle I think you may have done it." I said teasingly. He smirked
"You knew I would. I am after all the smartest, handsomest guy to ever grace Hogwarts"
"Not if you include me in that count" I said playfully sitting in his lap and wrapping my arms around his neck.
"Of course I included you. I am sexier" he said in a mock serious voice.
"Oh yeah?" I said I straddled him. "take it back. I am the sexiest to grace Hogwarts" He pulled me closer and we kissed and eventually had sex on the chair.
"Alright Tom we need to consider what timing will be atomically correct." I said pulling my robes on. Tom didn't remove not an article of clothing like last time. I sighed. He pulled the parchment with ingredients towards him and I grabbed a fresh piece and a Quill. We discussed and wrote and crossed out and rewrote for about an hour and a half. I glanced at my watch and realized I was going to be late for Quidditch practice.
" Shit. Tom I'm late we'll meet tomorrow okay around three?" I said grabbing my stuff.
" Sure I will keep working on this and we will continue tomorrow. Good night" he said and I fled the passage I ran to Gryffindor tower and changed before heading to the pitch.
" You are late!" Sterling shouted when I entered the locker room.
"I am sorry I lost track of time." I said getting my broom.
"Well you will now find out what you get to do when you are late as a punishment. Any one want to enlighten our dear friend" Sterling said and I looked around uneasily. They were all snickering.
"Well it depends on how late you are. If you are less then five you just stay after and help get the balls back into the case. If you are less then 10 then you help with the balls and put away everyone's brooms. If you are 15 or less you shine the captains Quidditch boots and everything else. If you are more then 15 then you shine the whole teams shoes and wash there practice gear and everything else. Oh and you can't use magic" said the snobby little seeker a blonde little mouse boy with a squeaky voice. I glared at him and Sterling grinned.
"Well Hermione you are lucky today can any one tell her why?" she said.
"Because it is your first offense" said one of the beaters. And I breathed a sigh of relief.
" I worn you now Hermione don't let it happen again. Now lets hit the sky!" she said and flew from the dressing room and into the sky. We practiced until the sun had long since set and we where frozen to our brooms.
"Excellent this is what I want to see in our match this Saturday. Always remember it is not a guaranteed win. Sure the chances are one and ten but there is still that one. So sleep good on Friday no stress be ready! Now out of my sight!" Sterling said. I walked with her to Gryffindor tower.
"Well that was exhausting" I said to her
"It felt great though. I am so ready for this game. Then we play Slytherin. Did I tell you they beat Ravenclaw today?"
" NO! why didn't you tell me they were playing today we would have stayed and watched!" I said staring at her.
" Hey don't sweat it I didn't want you to start getting worked up while watching them. J.D. analyzed the game and gave me a complete description of how they all played. Its an all male team by the way so they aren't very gentle. The game ended early 200 zip. Their seeker is new small and fast. He caught the snitch early on. He said there chasers were not quite on form, but the beaters were vicious. Oh and Tom was on perfect form as always. Bugger. He will be your biggest problem you kno-"
"did you say Tom was Slytherin seeker?" I cut her off. She looked at me disbelieving
"Yes didn't you know?"
"NO! why didn't you tell me?"
"Well I thought you would know he is your lover after all" Sterling said. I grew angry no one told me I would be playing against the man I loved. A man I was supposed to hate. What was I doing I was playing with fire. I was screwing someone who was supposed to be the most evil man alive what was I thinking. I looked at Sterling who was looking at me with concern. She was my friend here. Would I know her when I went back. Would she be hurt when the inevitable came and I disappeared. I ran then. I ran until I could not run any longer and I collapsed on the floor from exhaustion. When I caught my breath I looked around me. I had ended up in the Astronomy tower. My favorite haunt when the stress grew to be to much. I stood up and stood against the balcony and gazed up at the heavens. Was my fate told somewhere in that mass. What was I supposed to do here. I was beginning to forget my friends. There faces no longer came to mind. I couldn't remember a single thing. Only that they used to be my best friends. I was changing becoming something dark something not like I used to be. I was becoming to companion of Tom Riddle. Of Lord Voldemort. I looked over the edge it was such a long way down I would die on impact. I stood up on the balcony and closed by eyes. I felt the breeze play with my hair. I bent my knees ready to spring off the edge and someone grabbed me around the waist and pulled me back onto the astronomy tower floor. I looked at who grabbed me it was Dumbledore. I looked back at the ledge realizing the full impact of what I had been about to do.
"Oh god what was I thinking!" I choked out. "Professor its to much for me. I cant remember my friends, my old teachers, my parents, oh god I can't remember myself!"
And I burst into sobs. Dumbledore just held me as I cried with everything I had. My sobs subsided and I fell asleep.
The next morning it might have only been a dream.
I avoided everyone over the rest of the weekend and into the week to I skipped classes for two whole days. Instead I stood outside hidden by trees and bushes. I remembered it was were Me, Harry and Ron would go to escape our inevitable fates. Mine was different now. I used to think my destiny was to fight beside my best friends and the people who believed what Voldemort was doing was wrong. We were to go into battle and not leave each other sides until Voldemorts last breath. Now though I didn't want to see the man that I had so recently began to love die. I didn't get how he went from ambitious handsome bright wizard to nasty red eyed monster. And knowing what he would become made the tears fall from my eyes. What was I becoming had been my most popular question as of late. I was becoming Voldemort, or at least as bad as him. I had killed two people without remorse. I was becoming a monster. I stared out onto the lake not really seeing anything or hearing or feeling for that matter. I was empty. I felt someone's arm go around me startled I looked up into the frowning face of Tom.
"Are you okay Hermione you are beginning to worry me." he said he sounded sincere and it made me melt.
"I'm fine I just needed time to clear my head. I was just missing my parents and old friends."
"Oh." We sat in silence for a while when Tom asked suddenly
"Do you want to go to the Christmas ball with me?" I smiled in spite of myself. He sounded like a little boy asking for a Christmas gift.
"Of course I'll go with you Tom" I said and I hugged him. After a few minutes he asked if I wanted to walk around the lake. I nodded and we walked slowly arms around each other around the lake.
/Okay another chapter complete. it's a little subdued I'm actually feeling a little depressed now that I wrote this. We I am going to ask your guys opinion on how you want the end of the story. No this isn't the end I still have quite a few chaps to go but when the time comes. SO READ THIS DO YOU WANT HERMIONE TO BECOME OUR DARK LADY OR DO YOU WANT HER TO JUST BE GRIEVING SO MUCH OVER TOMS DEATH SHE ENDS UP DYING. If you want something more light hearted like she ends up pregnant with Toms babies I shall provide let me know
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